Keep the holiday table full of cheer by abiding by the second cardinal rule of safe home food preparation: Keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold.

Duct tape. Hamburger patties infected with E. coli. A Web cam. It sounds like a bad YouTube video; a recipe for disaster. It's actually a science project by three teenagers who sought a way to improve the safety of cooking in the fast food industry. Rebecca Ehrhardt and two of her friends, all home-schooled, hope their discovery will........>>

Despite the iron girders, concrete blocks and thick plates of glass, cities are fragile and their inhabitants vulnerable.Cities are really intricate webs of promises and assumptions. You are promised there will be electricity, water, sanitation, food supplies, safety in your homes, and you assume those promises will be kept.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), an agency of the European Union, began operating in 2002. Its permanent home is in Parma, Italy.Its primary responsibility is to provide independent scientific advice on all matters concerning food safety. The Authority assesses risks to the food chain and carries out scientific assessment on any matter that may affect the safety of food and feed in the European Union.The Authority’s work covers the whole food production process ‘from farm to fork’ — in other words from primary production (including the safety of animal feed) to the supply of food to consumers. The remit of EFSA also includes animal health and welfare (both for food producing animals and experimental animals) and plant health and protection. The EFSA gathers information from around the world, keeping an eye on new developments in science. It shares its findings not only with experts and decision-makers but also with the general public. External linksEuropean Food Safety Authority